Here is a nice coin that has an unexpectedly nice portrait (photo certainly is not as nice as actual coin though):
Perhaps these pictures do it better service: In hand it does not look varnished, though the surface is somewhat reflective; the area in the field to right of George is not waffled or disturbed as in the second picture.
I think the British Honduras coinage is underappreciated; low mintages by almost any standard yet far less expensive than comparable coins from more commonly collected countries (Australia, Canada, etc).
I don't think it's awful. Are these like Canadian large cent sized, or more like British (and Straits, etc) large pennies/cents?
The strike of the portrait looks to be quite nice, but the MacKennal portrait itself is used on a lot of coinage.
Okay, I did both sides - LOL - treated with acetone as per suggestions above. I couldn't really tell much difference...Whatcha think?
I noticed they have a ?MS 64 1911 on Ebay right now for 450 USD. That coin seems to be a bit overvalued to me & not as well struck. I think this one lightly cleaned though no hairlines.
